Step 14: Provide Specialized Environmental Training to Select Staff
In addition to general EMS awareness training, organizations should provide detailed training to the individuals identified in Step 11 who have a more direct role in implementing operational controls and achieving environmental objectives. These staff members will need training to help them understand:
- Key EMS processes and compliance obligations,
- Environmental aspects and impacts they must address,
- Operational controls related to their specific jobs, and
- Monitoring activities they must perform or oversee. Organizations may find it useful to develop a training matrix to track which employees require training, how often, and when.
Training needs must be formalized and reviewed by management. Specific needs should be established and correspond to the personnel’s responsibilities. All personnel that have potentially significant impact on the environment need to be appropriately trained. Management has the responsibility for deciding what this training should be.
Contractor Training
Contractors that work on your facility must also have proper training so their actions do not adversely affect the environment or undermine your environmental goals or objectives.
Relevant personnel should receive training in and have an awareness of:
- emergency preparedness
- company environmental objectives and goals
- the importance of conformance with company environmental policy
- the potential environmental impact of their job activities
- their specific roles and responsibilities related to the EMS
- consequences of not following operating procedures
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4-2. What is the main purpose of job-specific EMS training?
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